“Anything less than a championship,” the power forward said on MSG Thursday during Knicks’ Summer League broadcast from Las Vegas, “is a waste of a season.”

The Knicks should be better next season — just a full season under Mike Woodson without the turmoil of a mid-season coaching switch will help. Marcus Camby is a good fit as a backup big man and Raymond Felton seems motivated. They will get a good seed, maybe have a first round home court advantage, maybe get to the second round.

But unless there are some big changes, they are not coming out of the East. Miami got better and they have the crown. Boston got better. Chicago is potentially a title contender depending on Derrick Rose. After that there is a step down to the next tier in the East, where New York, Indiana and likely Brooklyn live. For the Knicks to get out of the East pretty much everything has to go right, then they would get to the finals and run into the Thunder or Lakers and, well. Bust.

But you don’t really want or expect Stoudemire to say anything otherwise.

So in one post, Kurt is down on Stat for setting the bar high and on the other post, he’s sucking off Daryl Morey for overpaying for a backup PG when he could have kept Dragic or Lowry. Fair and balanced blogger. Clap for him.

I am not a Knicks fan by any means. In fact, I can’t stand them or their fans. But I see nothing wrong with Amare saying that. Every player on every team should have that mentality going into the season.

“Be ready for failure, Knicks fans”?? No need to say that. Knicks fans are always ready for failure. They cheer for a badly run organization. They know failure better than most. This year’s Knicks roster is poorly put together, as usual. They’ll get to the playoffs, and possibly get to the second round. But make no mistake. The Knicks will not win a championship anytime in the next few decades while they have Dumb Dumb Dolan at the helm.

Knicks fans should be pissed the hell off watching team USA play. It’s obvious that Melo could play more of a team game and even play some defense if he wanted to… he does for team USA. For whatever reason he thinks NBA games can only be about himself so I just can’t imagine him as part of a championship team. Until the Knicks get some pieces that fit they are going to be locked into that 6,7,8 seed range.

Totally agree. It’s hard to imagine the Knicks winning a championship with Melo’s isolation offense as the focal point. That’s why Nash would’ve been such a good fit for NY – free-flowing, ball-distributing PG who gets Melo his shots in rhythm and keeps everyone involved. Felton might help a little, but you’re right, he can clearly play a team game with the Olympic team, why not on his own team?

Melo doesn’t trust the guys around him. He likes having Tyson, because Tyson knows his role on a team. Melo must be psyched to have Kidd, because he trusts him as a PG from their experience in the Olympics.

It seems when the superstars realize they need to trust their teammates and can can trust them, they take that next step towards a title.

Don’t count CP3 out of the picture in NYC in the season after next, LA has been nice, but his boys are playing with the Knicks.

It does help that Paul is an UFA at the end of the season. Anyone could come up with crazy ideas how to create space. If the Thunder don’t get it done with Harden and Ibaka helping KD and Westbrook, do they try to add Amare instead of paying those guys? So many things could happen that seem impossible, but its the NBA and almost any scenario can unfold. Who would have thought three of the NBA’s top players would join up?

I see Philly taking a step back and Orlando taking a huge step back. Atlanta will be competitive, but not as good. Washington should have enough talent and veteran leadership to finally get in the playoffs.

Guess its going to be a waste of a season. No chance they get close to a title, they will make the playoffs no doubt, but no way they get a title.

You can bet the USA boys are already crushing Tyson and Melo behind the scenes, might aswell get in an opponents head that they have no chance when they step on the court with you. Unless Amare has some spectacular start of the season, he is on his way out of NYC, no need to pay a guy that kind of money for what he produces on this team as it is designed. They need to bring in some outside shooters.

Wow. Look at everyone coming out to trash the Knicks. Sure they have poor management, but the roster is still better than the majority of other teams. Unless all these commenters are Heat homers, they can STFU. Who knows what will happen next season. Say Lebron rips his ACL…then what?